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Re: mknbi-1.0 question




On Sat, 20 May 2000, Ken Yap wrote:
> Not in this version. I've never tried this C: feature so I don't know
> how it works. You'd have to use the old mknbi for this. 

Ok, fair enough.

> Does your startup
> disk really have to be C:? The A: "floppy" can be quite large you know,
> it doesn't have to correspond to an existing media size. I had a report
> from somebody who made a 8 MB "floppy", something like 160 cylinders,
> 48 sectors and 2 heads I think.

It's not the size that matters. :-)  

I need to be able to use the floppy drive once the client has booted up in
DOS from the downloaded image. When the image becomes A: it's a tad
difficult to get at the floppy. 

Is there any thing I've missed which will allow me to do this?
A: and B: would even be ok actually...

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Phil Davey 
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